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I am new to Operating system course, and I am trying to find some Project Idea which I can implement on linux. My Instructor told us that we can make system call, but they didn't told us that how to ...

I'm trying to set up my django project to use nginx as its webserver on an EC2 Ubuntu instance following http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and_nginx.html. As part of this I ...

Trying to fix an offline install of the Carto tool from Mapbox on Ubuntu 14.04. Currently, node is giving me an error, it cant find the optimist module. I can manually find an optimist.js file, but ...

This question is referring to the ubuntu-run PC, where I was installing a package, which got interrupted due to the reason that the repository location is not accessible anymore.
As a result, I had ...

I've a squid3 proxy on my server ubuntu.
I would allow access to a group of sites only to a group of users.
Now my simple code is this:
acl WHITELIST url_regex "/var/proxy/whitelist/test.whitelist"
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I have my site up and running on ubuntu 14.10 in VMware Player and got the URL(http://127.0.0.1/wordpress) .But when other people try to see my site and type the URL (http://127.0.0.1/wordpress) ,they ...

I am using Ubuntu 12.10. When my system stuck I will press number lock button to check my system working or not. But nowadays whenever I press number lock button number lock light will always blinking ...

Is there any way on Ubuntu from the command line to specify from which repository to install a certain package?
I need to install a package from our own PPA, which works fine for all the packages we ...

I am having issues with nvidia graphics driver on ubuntu 14.04. Is there a way to install the driver and use it just for cuda computation not for gui/display purpose? I tried the run installer method ...

I am new to Ubuntu and Git. How I can verify that I have installed git on my machine? When I tried apt-get I got:
root@ubuntu:/home/nebojsa# apt-get install git
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...

There is some issue with the display in ubuntu. This occurs if I leave it on standby for few minutes and unlock the screen. Please check the screenshot http://imgur.com/Fw0ibDU
Please let me know the ...

I'm having problems trying to ssh in an ubuntu box inside my windows machine. I'm following the basic Getting Started tutorial from Vagrant site (http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/up.html)
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I have tried to do both hwclock --set --date "2015-03-01 8:2:00" AND date --set="2015-03-01 8:00 AM" for example and regardless, it will boot up with today's correct date/time which (oddly enough) is ...

I'm having an issue installing rails on Ubuntu 14.04.2. Basically, when I am trying to run "gem install rails -v 4.2.0 -V", it seems to fail at the same dependencies every time, and if I can resolve ...

I have eclipse Luna installed on my ubuntu 14.04 in my home directory. I changed the some of the settings in eclipse.ini file, also in the same directory, including upping the given:
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
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I use Vagrant with VirtualBox provider.
When I execute vagrant up in my terminal I had a Dynamically allocated storage at the end of execution.
How can I change --variant option to the Fixed storage ...